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HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies with Limited Hypermutation from an Infant.


ABSTRACT: HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) develop in a subset of infected adults and exhibit high levels of somatic hypermutation (SHM) due to years of affinity maturation. There is no precedent for eliciting highly mutated antibodies by vaccination, nor is it practical to wait years for a desired response. Infants develop broad responses early, which may suggest a more direct path to generating bnAbs. Here, we isolated ten neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) contributing to plasma breadth of an infant at ?1 year post-infection, including one with cross-clade breadth. The nAbs bind to envelope trimer from the transmitted virus, suggesting that this interaction may have initiated development of the infant nAbs. The infant cross-clade bnAb targets the N332 supersite on envelope but, unlike adult bnAbs targeting this site, lacks indels and has low SHM. The identification of this infant bnAb illustrates that HIV-1-specific neutralization breadth can develop without prolonged affinity maturation and extensive SHM.

SUBMITTER: Simonich CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4930401 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies with Limited Hypermutation from an Infant.

Simonich Cassandra A CA   Williams Katherine L KL   Verkerke Hans P HP   Williams James A JA   Nduati Ruth R   Lee Kelly K KK   Overbaugh Julie J  

Cell 20160623 1


HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) develop in a subset of infected adults and exhibit high levels of somatic hypermutation (SHM) due to years of affinity maturation. There is no precedent for eliciting highly mutated antibodies by vaccination, nor is it practical to wait years for a desired response. Infants develop broad responses early, which may suggest a more direct path to generating bnAbs. Here, we isolated ten neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) contributing to plasma breadth of an  ...[more]

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